by From the National Institute of Health on Aging: “Vitamins and minerals are two of the main types of nutrients that your body needs to survive and stay healthy. … Some vitamins help you resist infections and keep your nerves healthy, while others may help your body get energy from food or help your blood clot properly. It is usually better to get the nutrients you need from food, rather than a pill. That’s because nutrient-dense foods contain other things that are good for you, like fiber. Most older adults can get all the nutrients they need from foods.”
God has given us all things necessary to survive (2 Peter 1:3). Physically, nothing compares to getting our nutrients straight from God’s creation. Spiritually, nothing compares to getting our nutrients straight from God’s Word.
We get all the spiritual nutrients we need from vitamin B, the Bible. Devotionals and books are blessings as supplements, but not a replacement for God’s Word. Amazingly, His Word is good for our physical health, it is “life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh” (Proverbs 4:20-22). His Word “shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones” (Proverbs 3:8). More importantly, His Word is good for our spiritual health, as Paul taught Timothy, “Take heed … unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee” (1 Timothy 4:13-16).
Man has survived for millennia — physically without pharmaceuticals’ supplements and spiritually without flamboyant books by man. Let’s not be like the Hebrews who drifted from God’s food source to the point that Paul had to feed them “the first principles of the oracles of God” because they could not digest “strong meat” of God’s Word needed to survive spiritually (Hebrews 5:11-14). If you believe God’s Word has power and is profitable for the life here and hereafter, then get into it and feed on it, and rest in it, and shine it in your daily life — continue daily in Vitamin B.
